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- From: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Third party recommendation <**********
- Message-ID: <34731@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 13:47:21 GMT
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- HARD DRIVES
-
- We purchased a 1.6Gb 5.25" external Micropolis drive from Falcon. After
- the 4th drive failed to work, they sent us a Seagate Wren and we haven't had
- any problems with it. The Seagate also appears to be an over all better
- drive too.
-
- Here are some 3rd party disk suppliers:
-
- ARROW/KIERRULFF Electronics
- ATTN: Bruce
- 8300 Guilford Rd.
- Columbia, md 21046 (301) 995-6002
- 5.25" SCSI and were about $2,700.00 each for 766 Mbytes. (July '90)
-
- Mid-Atlantic Data Systems, Inc.
- ATTN: Paul Hoy
- 847-A Quince Orchard Blvd.
- Gaithersburg, Md 20878 (301) 590-0666
- ESDI
-
- CITA Technologies, Inc. Contact:Jeff Thomas
- 860 Broad Street
- Emmaus, PA 18049
- Phone: (215) 965-3552
- CITA has disk drives for the Indigo, including the mounting
- hardware. Brackets alone $452 list ($294 discount?) (Sept. '92)
- 520Mb (formatted), 5 year 24 hour replacement warranty, $1,475?
- (January '92)
-
- CompuPlus
- (303) 666-8300, FAX: (303) 666-8306
- 1.05G internal disk for Indigo $2,150 (July '92)
-
- Impediment Inc.
- 333 Duxbury, Ma 02332
- (617) 837-8877
- Attn: Alex.
- 5.25" 780 Mb SCSI $1600, 1.6 Gb SCSI $2700 (Sept. '91)
-
- Falcon Systems Inc. Contact:John Tibbitts
- 5816 Roseville Rd.
- Sacramento, CA 95842
- (800) 326-1002
- SCSI, SMD and ESDI disks too.
- Falcon has disk drives for the Indigo, including the mounting
- hardware.
- 520Mb 3.5" (formatted) $1,590 (Jan. '92)
- 1.2Gb internal disk for Indigo $2,280 (July '92)
- 5 year 24 hour replacement warranty,
-
- R Squared
- 11211 E. Arapahoe Road
- Suite 200
- Englewood, CO 80112
- Phone: (303) 799-9292/(800) 777-3478
- Contact: Dave Lovell
-
- MEMORY
-
- Here is a list I have compiled from info-iris mail. All comments are
- from the original poster. I don't know how good or bad most of them are,
- but we bought 64Mb of Kingston memory from Impediment in April for our
- new Indigo and everything seems to be working AOK.
-
- ClearPoint
- 35 Parkwood Drive
- Hopkington,MA 07148
- (800) 253-2778, (508) 435-2000
- (A distributor: Dick Smith, Software Associtates: (916) 344-5558)
- Memory for 4D 20's, $76/Mb (GSA pricing) (late February '90)
- 1Mb sims, $100/Meg (80Ns)
- Memory for 4D/25, 4Mb sims 80ns,Part #:SNX-SM/L4-80 $154/4Meg (April '92)
- Memory for SPARCstation 1+, 4Mb sims 80ns, $520/4Meg (mid April '90)
- (Life time warranty.)
-
- CompuPlus
- (303) 666-8300, FAX: (303) 666-8306
- 32MB Indigo/R3000 RAM is $1598.00, (July '92)
- also hard disks
-
- Dataram Corp.
- 1100 Jorie Blvd.
- Suite 118
- Oak Brook, IL 60521
- (708) 574-3710
- (A distributor: Jim Rizzicci: (313) 647-8660)
- 4Mb Memory Module for SGI Personal Iris 4D/20
- Product Number #D/SIMM/4/9LP-8: $188/4Mb (April '92)
- (Life time warranty.)
-
- Datarep Co., (408) 730-2121, David M. McWalters, Chip Meyers
- 100ns Piiceon, Helio: $575(/4Mb ?), 80ns: $625 (early March '90)
-
- Falcon Systems Inc.
- 5816 Roseville Rd.
- Sacramento, CA 95842
- (800) 326-1002, (916) 344-1221, FAX: (916) 344-1292 (October '91)
- SR4-25 4Mb memory upgrade for PI $ 175 (April '92)
- 16Mb for 4D/20,25 (Toshiba/Hitachi 4Mb SIMMS) $1,500
- 32Mb for 4D/20,25 $3,000
- 32Mb for 4D/35, Indigo/R3000 $1,760 (July '92)
- 4Mb for 4D/50,70,80,85GT,Turbo 12&16 $ 295
- 8Mb ECC add on for 4D/120,200,300 $1,150
- 24Mb ECC add on for 4D/120,200,300 $3,500
- 54Mb ECC add on for 4D/120,200,300 $6,800
- 32Mb High Density add on for 4D/120,200,300 $6,200
- 32Mb High Density with board for 4D/120,200,300 $8,500
-
- Impediment, Inc.
- 333 Franklin St.
- Duxbury, MA 02332
- (617) 837-8877, Alex Sunguroff (car phone): (617) 694-4488
- Fax: (617) 834-3666
- 4D/20's, 1Mb simms, $45/Mb (Sept. '91)
- 4D/25, 4Mb simms , $185 (Oct. '91)
- 4D Power Series Hi $1425/32Mb (May '92)
- 4D/3X & Indigo, 32MB Kit (KSG32/RPC) $1300 (Part #:KTM-32/MM3) (Oct. '92)
- Indigo R4000 32MB Kit (KSG32/R40) $1100 (Oct. '92)
- Indigo R4000 64MB Kit (KSG64/R40) $2300 (Oct. '92)
- (Have heard good things about this company, including
- Life Time replacement guarantee on memory, not 90 days like
- some companies)
-
- Memory X, Inc.
- 3954 Murphy Canyon Road, Suite D 104
- San Diego, CA 92123
- (619) 292-1151; (619) 292-0774 FAX
- Gary W. Smith (April '92)
- MXD94000SM-80 $169/4Mb (qty 16)
- MXD94000SM-80 $165/4Mb (qty 32)
-
- Parity Systems Inc.
- 504-B Vandell Way
- Campbell, CA 95008-9737; John Miller?, Gene Krusche
- (408) 378-1000, FAX: (408) 378-1022
- 1Mb 80ns SIMMS in Sun 3/x0's and SGI 4D/25's. $66US. (mid Jul/90)
- 4Mb 80ns SIMMS in Sun 3/x0's $400 (mid Jul/90)
- 4Mb 80ns SIMMS in SGI 4D/25's. $136/4Mb (April '92)
- SCSI Disks 300Mb-1.2Gb and Tapes 8mm&1/4"; also available
- No problems, fast ship, life-time warranty.
-
- Pinacle Sales International
- 2005 Hamilton Ave, Suite 220
- San Jose, CA 95125: Jonathan Ward
- (408) 559-8544, FAX: (408) 559-8548
- 4D/25, 1Mb Simms, $97/Mb; 4D/200 2Mb Simms, $315/2Mb (July '90)
-
- Sigma Data Inc. (800) 446 - 4525
- 2Mb strips, 80ns (KSG-8000 kit for 4D/XXX), ~$210/Mb (July '90)
-
- Sophisticated Circuits
- 19017 120th Ave N.E.
- Bothel, WA 98011
- (206) 485-7172.
- Memory for 4D 20's, 1Mb simms, $125/Mb (January '90)
- SGI-H4-C04X $169/4Mb (April '92)
- SGI-HU-C16B $589/16Mb $147.25/4Mb (April '92)
- "...about the 4th time I have bought memory from them.
- Last year I got a batch of bad chips and they promptly
- replaced them with no hassle. The original memory I
- bought is still working fine, just about 2 years."
-
-
- South Coast Electronics, (213) 208-3260, Bob Rich
- SC94000/08: 4Mb Memory Upgrade, $1652 (Sept. '90)
- 80ns Toshiba or Hitachi
-
- Systems Research, (415) 940-1890, Peter Kikos
- 80ns Hitachi: $595(/4Mb ?)
-
- Technology Works, Austin, TX, 800-622-2210
- Memory for SPARCstation 1+, 4Mb sims 80ns, $520/4Meg (mid April '90)
-
- Note: Some one said they tried Hitachi SIMMS in a Personal and they
- didn't work.
-
- CD-ROMS
-
- I wouldn't bother with 3rd party SGI has made special enhancements to
- the drives they sell to fully support multi-media applications. From what
- I've heard on the net, it just doesn't seem worth the hassle to try and find
- a 3rd party drive that will work.
-
- DAT
-
- Don't know, maybe same as CD-ROMS. But why use DAT?!! This technology
- was DOA. I would suggest looking into Magneto-Optical Drives, you can almost
- get 1Gb on them and you can use them like a slightly slower hard drive.
- Tape technology is dead as far as I'm concerned. Too many things can and do
- go wrong with it.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- P.S. What happened to the info-iris-misc, info-iris-hardware, etc. mailing
- lists that were suppose to be created after the break up?!
-
- Brent L. Bates Phone:(804) 864-2854
- M.S. 361 FAX:(804) 864-8469
- NASA Langley Research Center
- Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001
- E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero00.larc.nasa.gov
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